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In this work we consider the dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field -- under Dirichlet boundary conditions -- between two concentric spherical shells. We obtain a general expression for the average number of particle creation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Pascoal , L. C. Céleri , S. S. Mizrahi , M. H. Y. Moussa

We study the Casimir problem as the limit of a conventional quantum field theory coupled to a smooth background. The Casimir energy diverges in the limit that the background forces the field to vanish on a surface. We show that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , V. Khemani , M. Quandt , M. Scandurra , H. Weigel

The Casimir force provides a striking example of the effects of quantum fluctuations in a mesoscopic system. Because it arises from the objects' electromagnetic response, the necessary calculations in quantum field theory are most naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Giuseppe Bimonte , Thorsten Emig , Noah Graham , Mehran Kardar

The Casimir energy is calculated in one-, two-, and three-dimensional spaces for the field with generalized coordinates and momenta satisfying the deformed Poisson brackets leading to the minimal length.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vakarchuk

In the present work, we study a fermionic Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) theory with a CPT-even extension and analyze its impact on the Casimir effect under the MIT bag boundary condition model in a low-dimensional setting, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 K. E. L. de Farias , M. A. Anacleto , Iver Brevik , F. A. Brito , E. Passos , Amilcar Queiroz , João R. L. Santos

This paper addresses the excitation of vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field through periodic modulations of a refractive index and the possibility of using entanglement as a distinctive marker of the quantum nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Ariel Guerreiro , Paulo Alcino

Non-local boundary conditions have been considered in theoretical high-energy physics with emphasis on one-loop quantum cosmology, one-loop conformal anomalies, Bose-Einstein condensation models and spectral branes. In the present paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-08 Aram Saharian , Giampiero Esposito

We calculate radiative corrections to the Casimir effect for the massive complex scalar field with the $\lambda\phi^{4}$ self-interaction in $d+1$ dimensions. We consider the field submitted to four types of boundary conditions on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Cavalcanti , C. Farina , F. A. Barone

We formulate the Babinet Principle (BP) as a relation between the scattering amplitudes for electromagnetic waves, and combine it with multiple scattering techniques to derive new properties of Casimir forces. We show that the Casimir force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-22 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Ronen Abravanel , Robert L. Jaffe

We study Casimir effect in equilibrium and non-equilibrium photon gas in the frame of quantum kinetic theory for $U(1)$ gauge field. We derive first the transport, constraint and gauge fixing equations for the photon number distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Xingyu Guo , Jiaxing Zhao , Pengfei Zhuang

The Wightman function and the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and of the energy-momentum tensor are obtained, for a massive scalar field with an arbitrary curvature coupling parameter, in the region between two infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 E. Elizalde , A. A. Saharian , T. A. Vardanyan

A fundamental prediction of quantum mechanics is that there are random fluctuations everywhere in a vacuum because of the zero-point energy. Remarkably, quantum electromagnetic fluctuations can induce a measurable force between neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Zhujing Xu , Xingyu Gao , Jaehoon Bang , Zubin Jacob , Tongcang Li

We calculate the spectrum and the total rate of created particles for a real massless scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions, in the presence of a partially transparent moving mirror simulated by a Dirac $\delta-\delta^{\prime}$ point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Jeferson Danilo L. Silva , Alessandra N. Braga , Danilo T. Alves

Using nonstandard recursion relations for Fresnel coefficients involving successive stacks of layers, we extend the Lifshitz formula to configurations with an inhomogeneous, n-layered, medium separating two planar objects. The force on each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Marin-Slobodan Tomas

We compute an analog Casimir effect in a one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquid confined to a segment in the presence of a nearly-impenetrable partition dividing the segment into two compartments. The Casimir interaction is found to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Michael Timmins

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect resulting from the oscillatory motion of either one or two flat semitransparent mirrors, coupled to a quantum real and massless scalar field. Our approach is based on a perturbative evaluation, in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 C. D. Fosco , A. Giraldo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We have developed an exact, general method to compute Casimir interactions between a finite number of compact objects of arbitrary shape and separation. Here, we present details of the method for a scalar field to illustrate our approach in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

In this paper we take a deeper look at the technically elementary but physically robust viewpoint in which the Casimir energy in dielectric media is interpreted as the change in the total zero point energy of the electromagnetic vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Carmen Molina-Paris , Matt Visser

We develop here a mechanism that, without making use of a cosmological constant, reproduces an accelerating universe. This is done by taking into account Casimir vacuum energy density, assuming that the underlying theory allows a maximum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Briscese , A. Marciano

The Lifshitz formula is well known as a theoretical approach to investigate the Casimir effect at finite temperature. In this Letter, we generalize the Lifshitz formula to the Casimir effect originating from quantum fields at finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Daisuke Fujii , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki